Browsing Doctoral Theses by Author "Jackson, Emily Katherine"

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    • Evolution of large palindromes on the primate X chromosome 

      Jackson, Emily Katherine (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-06)
      Human sex chromosomes are enriched for complex genomic architecture, including massive palindromes with arms that can exceed 1 Mb in length and arm-to-arm sequence identity higher than 99%. Palindrome arms harbor protein-coding ...